TBG, I think that your second previous post, which was addressed to NoNoise, may have been intended for someone else.
As Mapman indicated, the thread appears to have pretty much run its course, and opinions on all sides have been pretty well covered. As is usual in debates such as this, none of the opinions of any of the protagonists will wind up any different than they were at the start of the thread. Others who may read the thread will of course form their own opinions.
There is, however, one thing which has not yet been addressed by anyone other than me (and to some extent by Frogman, in responding to one of my posts). If any of those at the believer end of the spectrum wish to comment further, they may want to consider providing a description of what specific steps they took in their assessments of directionality differences to assure that the differences they heard were not the result of extraneous variables. Such as those I described in an earlier post, namely differences in contact integrity, equipment being in different states of warmup, differences in AC line voltages and noise conditions, etc. And note that I have not even mentioned until now the vagaries of aural perception.
As I indicated in my earlier post, it seems to me that eliminating those kinds of possibilities requires, as a minimum, that the fuse contacts be cleaned, and then that the listener makes several comparisons while going back and forth between the two directions several times.
Regards,
-- Al
As Mapman indicated, the thread appears to have pretty much run its course, and opinions on all sides have been pretty well covered. As is usual in debates such as this, none of the opinions of any of the protagonists will wind up any different than they were at the start of the thread. Others who may read the thread will of course form their own opinions.
There is, however, one thing which has not yet been addressed by anyone other than me (and to some extent by Frogman, in responding to one of my posts). If any of those at the believer end of the spectrum wish to comment further, they may want to consider providing a description of what specific steps they took in their assessments of directionality differences to assure that the differences they heard were not the result of extraneous variables. Such as those I described in an earlier post, namely differences in contact integrity, equipment being in different states of warmup, differences in AC line voltages and noise conditions, etc. And note that I have not even mentioned until now the vagaries of aural perception.
As I indicated in my earlier post, it seems to me that eliminating those kinds of possibilities requires, as a minimum, that the fuse contacts be cleaned, and then that the listener makes several comparisons while going back and forth between the two directions several times.
Regards,
-- Al